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Stroke of Will Genia shows up Martin Johnson’s failings

WILL GENIA is 21 years old and already capped eight times as a scrum-half for Australia. Yesterday, he delivered a man-of-the-match performance against England and in the process taught not only his opposing players but the opposition management a brutal lesson in the art of international rugby.

Pitched into this season's Tri-Nations, Genia is developing at such a rate that come the 2011 World Cup he is going to be one of the outstanding pivots in the world game. England - in contrast - remain hamstrung by an obsession with experience driven by a fear of losing.

Australia may have lost six of their past seven internationals (against New Zealand and South Africa) but coach Robbie Deans has continued to trust kids such as Genia and the almost equally impressive Quade Cooper with the task of moulding a mature and match-winning team, and most pertinently, a team capable of competing in 2011